Pedro Sousa
Team Lead Of Embedded Engineering at Sword Health
Gondomar, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Sousa is an experienced embedded engineering leader with 11 years driving firmware and OS development, now serving as Team Lead of Embedded Engineering at Sword Health. He has progressed through roles from OS Engineer to Senior Firmware Engineer and now team lead, bringing deep hands-on experience taking prototypes toward production in medical device contexts. His background spans industry and research—Synopsys, DSR Corporation and INESC—giving him strong systems-level expertise in low-level software, embedded platforms and real-time constraints. Based in Gondomar, Portugal, he pairs technical leadership with practical mentorship, having moved quickly into leadership since joining Sword Health in 2021. An early IEEE student-branch chair and participant in robotics workshops, he blends formal electrical/computer engineering training with a pragmatic, product-focused approach to embedded system design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Nível 4 Electrónica Industrial e Automação, Técnico Nível 4 Electrónica Industrial e Automação at Colégio de GaiaUnfinished Master's degree Autonomous Systems, Unfinished Master's degree Autonomous Systems at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do PortoWorkshop Netherlands "The Robot Rescue Simulation"Licenciatura Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Licenciatura Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores at ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (39)
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
drones10
rover10
bluetooth10
ros10
git-repository9
qgroundcontrol9
hardware9
iot9
scalable9
raspberry-pi9
embedded9
architectures8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sousapedro596/STM32F429i_sample
Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
sousapedro596/stm32f429-freertos800
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:20 pushes in 11 months
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